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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 30/09/2026

Here’s one, just because I’m enjoying doing psychic damage to people: George W. Bush was President when “Iron Man” was released.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 27/09/2026

Wait though, didn’t they have a cat person in the Federation Council in ST4?

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 24/09/2026

Maus of the Sea, Liberian registration, will be ready for passengers in 2028.

"Mortal Engines" still image of a landship.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 21/09/2026

I'd like to think I'm relatively well-rounded (I hope) but this is definitely something that didn't happen when I was growing up and I still feel the deficit from time to time.

(6) Keep Him Away From Adults—Parents, make sure he is never forced to engage in mature conversations about life and the world with people your age or older. Do whatever you can to keep him with his peers as much as possible. If you attend church, for example, make sure he is deeply involved in youth ministry, but never allow him to participate in the men’s ministry in any way.

Fathers, don’t ever bring him along when you spend time with your friends. He never needs to hear adults discussing marriage, work, faith, politics, failure, sacrifice, or responsibility. Again, if you’re in a church, do not ever bring the teenage boys on any men’s treats. Ever.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 18/09/2026

Did OpenAI just send me a junk email solicitation?

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 17/09/2026

Not so fast, Lewis Terman!

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 14/09/2026

Uncentered text block drives me crazy

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 12/09/2026

Been a productive morning.

Screenshot of a Stream Deck XL with Steinberg SpectraLayers macros on custom keycap images.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 08/09/2026

It just occurred to me that I think I’m actually working in the mixing theater II was finished in today.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 06/09/2026

I dunno, pace Danny Boyle but Soderberg recreated 1905 New York on a Showtime budget for a mere TV series a decade ago.

"We couldn't afford to recreate Fleet Street," Boyle said.
"You have to use photographs and animate them, because it's gone."

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 04/09/2026

“A man hands you a lemon-lime sugary carbonated beverage and you called it ‘Coke’. It’s clearly not Coke, why did you call it that? You could have called it pop? Why didn’t you call it pop?”

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 04/09/2026

Maybe I listen to too many New York and Philly podcasts.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 02/09/2026

“AI can make mistakes. Check important info.”

Four extirpated death cap mushrooms looking delicious!

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 23/08/2026

"Finally, Parker, some results!"

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 22/08/2026

AUDIO NERD ALERT: Jon Greasley and I wrote about the recent changes to the ATSC television loudness standards in the CAS Quarterly—Jon taking a victory lap here, I'm happy to throw Gatorade at him.

ATSC Loudness
Spec Update:
A DIALOGUE-GATED
SQUEAKY WHEEL

Here I am again, still ranting about the loudness specs we mix to for broadcast
and streaming. This time though, it actually feels like progress has been made.
The story so far—since the CALM Act took effect in 2012, we’ve all seen loudness spec
sheets from the networks and cable channels specifying a LKFS target our mixes must
conform to. This was based on a solid concept: Adverts are too loud—obnoxiously so,
in many cases. ATSC, the Broadcast Standards Association, authored the document
“A/85: Techniques for Establishing and Maintaining Audio Loudness for Digital
Television,” which laid out the best practices for achieving a more consistent listening
level between shows and commercials and between channels. All loudness
measurement is based on BS.1770, issued by the ITU, and there have always been a
few ways to apply it in a practical sense. The most important distinction is what you
are measuring. In the simplest terms, it’s either going to be the full mix (termed “Full
Program”), or one element of the mix, referred to as the “anchor element,” which is
almost always dialogue.
Ad mixes tried to game the system with tricks such as inserting silence for a moment
to skew the measurement down so the overall level could be boosted. And over the
years, 1770 was updated to be more agile, account for these tricks, and be more
accurate in its measurements. This is where problems started to arise....

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 22/08/2026

Never habitually but this was core sick day viewing (don’t ask me what it was about or who was in it, it takes places in the “Gimme a Break” universe maybe?)

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 19/08/2026

This is the thing they‘re trying to ape. (Manley licenses their own modeling plugin.)

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 19/08/2026

Five-digit odometer? GM did not think much of these thing's longevity.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 15/08/2026

Humbly submit Peter Jurasik was in Tron. (I will recognize Bruce Boxleitner if they Sitcom Faces ever does Scarecrow and Mrs. King).

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 14/08/2026

The source looks like this...

$#page(width:19.2in, height: auto, fill: color.black)[ == Executive Producer Jack Philbin == Producer Jack Hurdle == Director Frank Satenstein == Assistant Producer Stanley Poss == Writers Marvin Marx \ Walter Stone == Director of Photography Doug Downs == Musical Director Sammy Spear == Film Editor Leondard Anderson$

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 14/08/2026

Experimenting with Typst to do end crawls.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 12/08/2026

Post your favourite Disney princess. Wrong answers only.

Joanne Whalley in WILLOW as Princess Sorsha

(which to me always sounded like George Lucas heard someone pronounce “Saorise” and he wrote it down phonetically. He does that a lot, in the Star Wars screenplays he calls the gold robot “Seethreepio” and his buddy “Artoodeetoo”)

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 12/08/2026

You left out Mitch Pileggi (to say nothing of Nick Pileggi)

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 10/08/2026

Basically this except it’s a tech CEO.

“The Irresponsible Captain Tylor” cover art

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 04/08/2026

Best Bond villain, wrong answers only...

Christopher Walken as Galactic Emperor Shaddam IV in DUNE 2

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 04/08/2026

All about the Panda Bear physique.

Publicity still for “True Stories” of John Goodman as Louis Fyne wooing Swoozie Kurtz as Miss Rollings.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 26/07/2026

Do I need an Olivetti Valentine?

A very red Olivetti Valentine manual typewriter.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 25/07/2026

Grandpa doesn’t suffer from cognitive decline, he does however dress in his Imperial Japanese Army uniform strictly for patriotic reasons.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 25/07/2026

Bernds published his memoirs in 1999 and there’s a lot of really interesting early talkie lore in here.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 24/07/2026

Goldstone is in touch with the spacecraft it can see. The DSN is three stations separated by 120 degrees of longitude and Madrid is tasked to talk to several missions at this moment (including Voyager 1) and none of these sessions are currently happening.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 24/07/2026

55 is marked out for ”Engineering Upgrades”, and 54 is not reporting a status at present.

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